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Yukio Akakariyama

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Yukio Akakariyama, born in Osaka in 1975, is a Japanese pool player who won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 2011. After reaching the semifinals of the 2011 WPA World Ten-ball Championship, he beat Karlo Dalmatin, Carlo Biado and Mark Gray at the nine-ball championship to reach the final, where he defeated Ronato Alcano of the Philippines 13 to 11. He lost his defence of the title in the 2012 semifinals to Thorsten Hohmann, and reached the quarterfinals of the 2013 World Games. His listed titles also include the 2016 All Japan 14.1 Championship, the 2013 Japan Premier Ten Ball League and several Japanese nine-ball opens.

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    born 13 March 1975 in Osaka, Japan
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    is a Japanese pool player
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    is a Japanese pool player
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    Akakariyama won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship
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